The essence of Christianity consists therein: that the creation of the Father, destroyed by sin, is again restored in the death of the Son of God and…

- Herman Bavinck

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted

- Herman Bavinck

Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Chris…

- Herman Bavinck

In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues still to co…

- Herman Bavinck

We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes not so…

- Herman Bavinck

A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It i…

- Herman Bavinck

God saves by causing himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ.

- Herman Bavinck

God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit.

- Herman Bavinck

The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact th…

- Herman Bavinck